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Twenty-six candidates have applied to be Durango School District 9-R’s next superintendent, and the board of education plans to whittle the pool down to seven to 10 people in the first cut in its...
DATE: Feb. 10, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News
Two COVID-19 vaccination clinics will be held for Durango School District 9-R teachers and staff members on Saturday – one at Durango High School and one at Escalante Middle School. The clinic at...
DATE: Feb. 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News
Amiah Hanson is only a 16-year-old sophomore at Durango High School, but she might be playing as big a role as anyone not sitting on Durango’s Board of Education in finding the district’s next...
DATE: Feb. 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News
A COVID-19 vaccination clinic for educators within Durango School District 9-R could come as soon as next week, and eligibility for inoculations will extend to teachers and staff members from...
DATE: Feb. 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News
Dee Redsteer is a self-proclaimed “Zoom hater.” For her, Monday was a long time coming – the first day of in-person classes at Fort Lewis College since mid-November, when spiking COVID-19...
DATE: Feb. 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News
Animas High School presented more options to pair a second building with a proposed high school on the campus of Fort Lewis College, including either housing Big Picture High, the 9-R therapeutic...
DATE: Jan. 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News
Replete with a face mask and goggles, the new teacher uniform in the COVID-19 era, Rachel Tabor welcomed back her 18 kindergarten students this week, after they had spent eight weeks at home after...
DATE: Jan. 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News
The parameters for issuance of $90 million in bonds to improve school safety, to take care of a backlog of maintenance needs and to finance two new major buildings were set Tuesday by the Durango...
DATE: Jan. 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News
Durango School District 9-R will likely have to up the ante when it hires a new superintendent, district board members were told Tuesday night in an update on the search to replace Dan Snowberger....
DATE: Jan. 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News
Animas High School has moved a step closer to building a new school on the campus of Fort Lewis College – agreeing to a ground lease for 3.2 acres of land just south of the Bader-Snyder resident...
DATE: Jan. 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News
A proposal to meet the required $4.4 million BEST grant local match to build a new school for Animas High School on the Fort Lewis College campus has been shot down by a state board. But AHS Head...
DATE: Jan. 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News
Students will be back in school sooner and for more time each week under modifications of Durango School District 9-R’s plan to return to in-person learning made Thursday. The more aggressive...
DATE: Jan. 7, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News